About the Journal

Komunitas: Jurnal Pengembangan Masyarakat Islam is an academic journal, published by Department of Islamic Community Development, Faculty of Dakwah and Communication Science UIN Mataram in 2009 and published electronically by e-journal system in 2017. 

Komunitas focuses on social and religious issues in Indonesia with the specific topic in social development and contemporary religious-social issues.

Komunitas accepts a variety of articles from scholars (researchers, lecturers, and students) through a peer-review process by using Double Blind method available in open journal systems (OJS).  Komunitas provides an opened access system with the aim of delivering published research freely available to the public.

Komunitas is also opened for the scholars across the nations with the aim of enriching the research and literature. Since Komunitas has been freely accessed for the public, the commitment to provide articles with the quality and to adjust with the recent academic style of writing is on the high priority. So that, Komunitas accepts mainly articles written in Indonesian language and optionally accept articles written in English. Komunitas commits to conduct article review fairly and rigorously by using double-blind peer-review, so that afterwards the articles will be published. 

Komunitas publishes articles twice a year in June and December. The Journal encompasses articles filled with study results and concepts related to Islamic Community Development. The publication is available both printing and electronic (online) version. The printing version is collected as library archive of the faculty which will be freely accessed by scholars and society. So does the electronic version will be freely accessed without subscription.

Therefore, Komunitas with the facility of opened and free access may improve the reading interest in academic literature and the citation of articles.